Western treatment protocols for psychological trauma often prescribe recitation of narratives, despite evidence that the human brain’s storage of traumatic memories undermines verbalization. Creative arts therapists overcome this paradox in trauma recovery through nonlinguistic communication. Ethnographic research among holistic groups that rely on cultural rites, rather than words, as instrume...

Although frequent in our everyday conversations, irony is a complex pragmatic phenomenon involving specific linguistic, communicative and cognitive abilities in order to be fully understood. In this study we examined the pragmatic comprehension of ironical and non ironical language by analysing event-related potentials (ERPs) of irony decoding process. We asked 12 subjects to listen to 240 sent...

Over the last two decades, the utilization as well as applied study of collaborative networks has become central to both publicand private-sector management. Interorganizational networks may function better or worse than the traditional institution of the firm, with its internal role and authority distribution structures, depending on a number of factors, among others homophily (isomorphism, si...

In Action in Perception Alva Noë develops and presents a sensorimotor account of vision and of visual consciousness. According to such an account seeing (and indeed perceiving more generally) is analysed as a kind of skilful bodily activity. Such a view is consistent with the emerging emphasis, in both philosophy and cognitive science, on the critical role of embodiment in the construction of i...

Therapeutic DeliveryVol. 12, No. 1 CommentaryFree AccessDry powder inhalers: a concise summary of the electronic monitoring devicesPiyush Pradeep MehtaPiyush Mehta *Author for correspondence: Tel.: +91 20 2543 7237; Fax: 9383; E-mail Address: [email protected]://orcid.org/0000-0001-6155-0135Department Quality Assurance Techniques, Poona College Pharmacy, Bharati Vidyapeeth University, Pune...

treatment of the coding problem can produce a determinate solution. Furthermore, since proteins are not directly synthesized on a DNA template, to get at the code it is necessary to operate on the intermediate that carries sequence information. Since this intermediate, mRNA, is usually short-lived, unstable, relatively minor proportion of cellular RNA, in practice one had to develop mutually ad...

geographical relations and land areas. This projection is based on a very basic kinesthetic image-schematic structure. An image schema is a simple structure which is ingrained in everyday human bodily experience and becomes meaningful precisely due to its embodiment. In our example, the kinesthetic image-schematic structure is the Mikołaj Domaradzki 46 container schema: since many a thing can b...

Abilities are as important as interests in career choice and development. Reviving cognitive assessment in career counseling promises to help counselees better understand their career options and how to enhance their competitiveness for the ones they prefer. Nearly a century of research on human cognitive abilities and jobs’ aptitude demands in the United States economy reveals that the two dom...

In this article I trace the historical development of Peirce’s semiotic rhetoric from its early appearance as a sub-discipline of symbolistic to its mature incarnation as one of the three main branches of the science of semiotic, and argue that this change in status is a symptom of Peirce’s broadening semiotic interest. The article shows how the evolution of Peirce’s theory of signs is linked t...

It is argued that theoretical approaches to the nature of the influence of early experience on personality development have been vitiated by incorrect metaphysical assumptions, of a sort historically characteristic of immature sciences. In particular, mind and mental phenomena are construed in terms of various sorts of substances and structures, instead of in terms of process ontologies. We sho...